Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life (1893)
Hutchinson, H. N. (Henry Neville), 1856-1927 · New York : Appleton · leaf 88
ng ones were sometimes devoured too. It was in the period of the Lias that fish-lizards attained to their greatest development, both in numbers and variety ; and the strata of that period have preserved some interesting variations. It will be sufficient here to point out two, namely. Ichthyosaurus… … birdlike. Our artist has attempted to show the former variety in our illustration (Plate II.). A most perfect example of this pretty little Ichthyosaur, from the Lower Lias of Street in Somerset, has recently been presented to the National Collection at South Kensington by Mr. Alfred Gillett, of…
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